What's the weirdest thing you've asked AI to do? Examples welcome 🤖
I've recently gotten into training grip strength and since it’s a new area of strength training for me, I’ve been asking Claude a lot of weird questions about training and recovery techniques. So now, my chat history is a ton of stuff about work with the occasional odd question about how often I should be using extensor bands haha
What are some of the strangest things you've asked AI to help with? Did it actually help?
Drop your examples below! Bonus points if it was surprisingly helpful 😄
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Told GPT to draft a gym hype speech in the voice of Gandalf. Now I can’t do deadlifts without hearing ‘YOU SHALL NOT SKIP LEG DAY!’ echoing in my head.
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@alex_prosianyk Haha, I love this! Now I'm thinking of other characters I could use for gym hype speeches.
@jakecrump right? Imagine Yoda: ‘Skip leg day, you must not.’ Or Tony Stark: ‘If you’re going to lift, at least do it in style.’ 😂
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This question is TMI ;)
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@rrhoover Haha, I may end up regretting asking this
I took some pictures from Intraoral camera and asked chatgpt to analyse. It said I had a cavity in my tooth, so I went to the dentist and got it fixed. Not sure if this is weird enough :D
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I’ve asked for some help with diy sewing projects. Just trying to figure out how to make certain things. Worked medium well!
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@catt_marroll Very cool! My default is still YouTube for DIY projects. I'll have to try Claude the next time I have one to see how it works.
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I have used AI for routine purposes too, like a training program. But I can't say that all my requests are strange
I once asked AI to help me figure out how to politely leave a friend group chat without it sounding like a dramatic exit :)
To produce a sound inventory of the constructed language Esperanto and map it onto phonemes from Polish, so that I could generate (pretty good) text-to-speech for Esperanto by transliterating it into spoken Polish first.
Bet nobody expected that one!
PS: it did a good job and it resulted in a tool people use to generate Esperanto speech now!
I would rather not share my weird requests, but one of the things I was curious about (don't ask why) – How to make cauterisation. :D
Asking them how they are feeling.
Optibot
I recently asked claude to give me the exact specifications of a missing set of screws for my wife's handbag clasp that came off (these are tiny 2mm screws). I uploaded the image and asked it give me a thread count, depth and possible material. It did its analysis and gave me the exact size and how to order it off amazon. I took the leap and they turned out to be the right size, I was able to repair her handbag myself.
My next task for Claude is to help me restore a LV wallet I got from Japan. Learning to do some leatherwork through it.
Upp.Vote
I asked it to define me based on all our chat history. The output was pretty wild! :)
What's the weirdest thing you've asked AI to do? I recently started training grip strength and asked Claude some strange questions about recovery and exercises—like how often to use extensor bands. It was a bit odd but helpful!
What’s the strangest thing you’ve asked AI? Did it help? Share your examples below! Bonus points if it was surprisingly useful.
I used AI to check my Bazi (Eight Characters) fortune-telling to see how AI understands Chinese metaphysics.
I ask my AI tools to create images of items, characters and NPCs in my dungeons and dragons campaign pretty regularly. It usually does a good job and adds a lot to the world creation!
Back in 2023, when GPT‑4 just introduced, I was exploring the ethical boundaries of the model. It was a lot of meow to jailbreak out of the model's ethical constraints and have an unhinged conversation with it.
Got it to give me golf swing advice in the tone of the late Earl Woods - didn't have the same oomph but it was decent insight.
That's such a fun story! Playing "Turtle Soup" with an AI like Claude sounds both creative and hilarious. It’s true, AI often struggles with the nuances of human logic and imagination in games like that.